The
back of the paper petition provides graphical documentation of the
four intolerable features listed in
the petition. (The full list is much longer.)

Tom Burnett
Sr. and I also put together an appeal to
the American People, where Tom asks readers to
please consider signing our petition. (Tom Jr. is one of the heroes who
broke into the cockpit of the hijacked airliner and stopped the terrorists from
reaching Washington.)

I have two versions of Tom's letter posted. The one
with hyperlinks is suitable for
copying and pasting into email, or for posting online. There is also a paper version (without
hyperlinks) that can be printed out as a complement to the paper petition.

If you are responding to Tom Burnett's
appeal for
churches and individuals to help break the media blockade by checking and
reporting the facts for themselves, my "Proof of Betrayal"
page lists some basic claims about the design and shows how to check them, with
links to original sources.

For general updates on the re-hijacking of Flight
93, visit my Error Theory blog.

Preliminary draft available for Free download
until the print edition comes out in 2009.

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ugly?

Every place where the terrorists are memorialized
in the crescent design, they are placed in the symbolic Islamic heavens (the
crescent and star parts of the design). Every place where the 40 heroes are
memorialized, they are depicted as symbolically damned, cast out of the symbolic
Islamic heavens. One example is in the Tower of Voices, where an Islamic shaped
crescent soars in the sky above forty symbolic souls that literally dangle below:

Forty symbolic souls, never to rest in peace, gonging for
eternity in their symbolic damnation, strung like fish as they hang down from
the symbolic Islamic heavens projected in the sky above. Is the Memorial Project trying to start a riot? (Click pic for larger image.)

Don't let anyone tell you that the memorial is a circle now instead of a
crescent. It is described by the Park Service as a broken circle, which is exactly how architect
Paul Murdoch
described
the original Crescent of Embrace design back in September 2005, when controversy over the
giant crescent first erupted:

[Murdoch] said he would work to satisfy critics who complained that it
honors the terrorists. Its shape is a circle broken by the flight pattern of
the plane, which supporters have said follows the topography of the area.

Murdoch himself tells us what he is memorializing. He is showing how the
terrorists broke our liberty-loving circle and turned it into a giant
Islamic-shaped crescent (that just happens to
point to Mecca, like the Mecca direction indicator around which every
mosque is built). He is depicting al Qaeda victory.

When the American people said no to this attempt to plant a
giant Islamic
flag on the crash site, the Park Service agreed to get rid of the Islamic symbology, but they didn't. They only disguised it with a few irrelevant
trees. Every particle of the original Crescent of Embrace design remains
completely intact in the Bowl of Embrace redesign:

Except for re-coloring, the only change in the so-called redesign (right) is the extra arc of trees on the
west side of the memorial. The unbroken part of the circle (the crescent) is
unchanged in the phony redesign. (Full Crescent of Embrace site-plan
here.
Full Bowl of Embrace site-plan
here.)

The extra arc of trees in the Bowl of Embrace explicitly represents a broken off part of the
circle. This from the Park Service's
own website
(describing the current design):

The circle is broken in two places that mark the southeastern path of the
plane to the crash site. The circle is broken at the entry to the memorial and
at the crash site.

Including a broken off part of the circle is perfectly consistent with
Murdoch’s original terrorist memorializing theme. The terrorists still break
our liberty-loving circle and still turn it into a giant Mecca-oriented
crescent. Nothing is changed, thematically or geometrically.

Here is an animated graphic, showing the only change in the Bowl of Embrace
redesign. Instead of the broken off part of the circle being removed entirely,
a chunk of the broken off part of the circle remains floating out behind the
mouth of the crescent:

A Muslim facing into the giant crescent for prayer will not even be able to
see the extra arc of trees as he faces into the giant Mecca-direction indicator. In
effect, the redesign just plants some trees behind Murdoch's terrorist memorial
mosque, which makes no difference at all. You can plant as many trees around a
mosque as you want. It is still a mosque.

Publication date for print version of Crescent of
Betrayal pushed back.

This is by my choice.

So
much
information and
craziness has come to light since the July 2007 Memorial Project meeting
that I wanted more time to finalize the print edition of the book, now slated
for 2009.

The delayed publication date does
NOT mean that anyone has to wait for the book! My “director’s cut” draft will
remain available for
free download until the print edition comes out.

Crescent of Betrayal

Dishonoring the Heroes of
Flight 93

By Alec Rawls

World Ahead press release (draft), June
29, 2007

Forthcoming in August 2007, a new book from World Ahead
Publishing, Crescent of Betrayal, describes the many Islamic and
terrorist memorializing elements in the winning Crescent of Embrace design for
the Flight 93 Memorial. Most importantly, a person facing directly into the half
mile wide central crescent (still present in the superficially altered Bowl of
Embrace redesign) is facing almost exactly at Mecca. A crescent that Muslims
face into to face Mecca is called a mihrab and is the central feature around
which every mosque is built.

Author Alec Rawls started investigating the crescent site-plans after the winning
design was unveiled in September 2005, and spent much of 2006 trying to get the
Memorial Project to come to grip with his findings. Every element of the entire
crescent design turns out to be a typical mosque feature, realized on the same
epic scale as the half-mile wide central crescent. The minaret-like Tower of
Voices part of the memorial turns out to be a gigantic Islamic prayer-time
sundial. There are 44 memorial glass blocks emplaced along the flight path,
exceeding the number of our murdered heroes by the number of their murderers.
And on it goes, for over a hundred pages of Mr. Rawls’ 300 page exposé.

Architect Paul Murdoch’s crescent design is only the beginning of the crescent
of betrayal. Murdoch’s emergence is actually the easy part of the story to
understand. We hosted an open design competition in time of war. Of course the
enemy would enter, and try to win a memorial to their heroes instead of ours.
What is harder to explain is the year and a half now that the Memorial Project
has spent avoiding and then covering up Murdoch’s plot. Those charged with
memorializing “the flight that fought back” have struggled mightily to defend
and protect their hijacker.

The truth avoiding behavior of the Memorial Project is itself
part of a much larger phenomenon. Important parts of our society are only willing to see what they think it is
in their interest to see. This failure to trust in truth creates a divorce from
reality that allows people to think they are doing right, even as they twist all
the way around to directly abetting our terrorist enemies. The same thing is
happening on every terror war issue.

The New York Times has been directly abetting our terrorist enemies by
publishing illegal leak after illegal leak of the nation’s top secret terrorist
surveillance methods. Democrat leaders in Congress are striving with all of
their power to surrender Iraq to Iran and to al Qaeda, even as the Iraqi people are rising
up en masse to drive al Qaeda out. The Iraq war is “lost” and the Democrats will
“pick up Senate seats” because of it, says Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, as
he works feverishly to de-fund the war in time to insure these outcomes.

The Memorial debacle provides a revealing up-close look at
this destructive mindset. It also illustrates the solution. Truth suppressors are always vulnerable to the truths they are
suppressing. Exposure will stop Murdoch's mosque, and exposure of our anti-war
media's dishonest attacks on the legitimacy and progress of the war in Iraq can
stop the Democrats from achieving American defeat.

The most ruthless system of truth suppression belongs to our terror war enemies,
who threaten death to every critic of their violent brand of Islam. But can a
religion that repeatedly insists that those who forget the law of Moses will
burn in hell forever really just go killing off all its critics? The Berlin wall
of traditional Islam—its death penalties for blasphemy and apostasy—are in
flagrant violation of the Ten Commandments. This too cannot stand, if we hold
Islam up to its own proclaimed foundations.

The passengers and crew
of Flight 93 confronted the harshest truths, and acted as love required. It is
that spirit of truth and love that allowed them, even in their tragically
reduced circumstances, to still spend their lives as dearly as any of us could
hope, saving the nation from another terrible blow. As the rest of us
strive to carry that example forward, let us not neglect to properly honor its
first resting place.

The Memorial Project was supposed to announce the fate of the crescent design
last fall, and has been stonewalling ever since. On July 28, 2007 the Project
will hold its first public meeting in a year. (It is required by law to hold
them quarterly.) Mr. Rawls will be in Western Pennsylvania doing book publicity
at that time. Visit CrescentOfBetrayal.com for more information, including
graphical proof that the Crescent of Embrace is indeed oriented on Mecca, that
this orientation is intentional (being repeated in the crescents of trees that
surround the Tower of Voices), and that these features remain intact in the Bowl
of Embrace redesign.

•
For those who want abbreviated proof that the central crescent of the Crescent
of Embrace is indeed oriented on Mecca, that this orientation is intentional,
and that it remains in the Bowl of Embrace redesign, a short
proof of betrayal has been posted.

•
The website also has a page for news about the
Flight 93 memorial, for Crescent of Betrayal reviews and commentary, and for
things that people can do to help insure that a proper memorial is built. It
includes downloadable flyers and posters
than anyone can print out and post. If you have news to add, contact
alec@rawls.org.

The following items will remain offline
until Crescent of Betrayal is released on July 21st, 2007:

•All the graphics
in the book will be available in color online, along with links to source
graphics for the Crescent of Embrace and Bowl of Embrace designs.

•Full analysis of the crescent design is too voluminous to
fit in the book, so a host of addenda
are posted here on the Crescent of Betrayal website, including all of the
original documents referred to in the book.

•
Documentation of the larger phenomenon of truth avoidance and truth suppression
is another subject that is too extensive to fit in the book. What the book tries
to do is measure partisan dishonesty on terror war issues dimension by
dimension. A single example (Joe Wilson's treasonous "Bush lied" lies) is used
to measure what proportion of the mainstream media participates in partisan
dishonesty (almost all). Then the book looks at the range of terror war issue on
which the media is dishonest, documenting first a long list of dishonest attacks
on the legitimacy of the Iraq War "Iraq war
hoaxes," then documenting a long list of dishonest reporting on the
progress of the Iraq War.

These compendiums are filled out with
additional examples here online. World Ahead has very graciously given me
permission to put this whole part of the book online, so that online readers can
access the parts of this documentation that are included in the book alongside
the web-only documentation, allowing the website to serve as a
semi-comprehensive compendium of anti-war dishonesty.

The online
contents page for these compendia
indicate which are from the book and which are web-only, so if you have already read the
book, you can easily distinguish the additional materials, and if you want a
taste of the book, you can find a portion of it here.

If you have
an additional sub-heading of anti-war dishonesty you would like to document and
add to the compendium, contact: alec@rawls.org.